Following the death of her sib-sister in an assassination attempt by an Imperial Death Squad from Medina, Admiral Adana Korina decides on a vengeance worthy of a master strategist: she will launch a raid designed to do no less than cut the Colandran Empire in two. For this she will need iron determination, well-trained crews, and mines to isolate the planets she has attacked. She launches her raid into Imperial space, not realizing that the ultimate objective might be Medina, that produced the assassin who killed her sib-sister.